Tuesday, December 4, 2012

No New U.S. Defense Department Spending Cuts?

House GOP Counters Obama Plan; Neither Side Proposes DoD Cuts -- Defense News

U.S. House Republicans sent President Obama their first plan to avoid the “fiscal cliff,” one that is very different from his opening offer but alike in one way: It also excludes new Defense Department spending cuts.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a letter to Obama released Dec. 3, criticized a plan Obama lieutenants delivered to lawmakers late last week. The House Republicans’ chief fiscal cliff negotiator also proposed $800 billion in new federal revenue — half the amount proposed in Obama’s opening gambit — and over $1 trillion in new federal cuts.

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My Comment:
I doubt that cuts are off the table for the Pentagon. This is everyone positioning themselves to compromise later.

Update:
This is the real discussion that is taking place.

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